<p class="abstract">Spinal anaesthesia is a safe and widely performed mode of anaesthesia with low complication rate. It may however be complicated infrequently with neurological deterioration as a result of injury to nerve root and spinal cord or epidural haematoma. Rarely neurological deterioration may occur following spinal anaesthesia in the presence of spinal tumours. We presented a case of neurological deterioration following spinal anaesthesia for caesarean section in a patient with previously undiagnosed thoracic spinal tumour.</p>
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